Details

Standardized Title:

Brahmanas. Aitareyabrāhmaṇa

Other Title:

Prathama pañcikā.

Subjects:

Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Vedas, Brāhmaṇa, śrauta sacrificial ritual, early mythology; first of five sections.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger; alternate title Prathama pañcikā from colophon (f. 19v).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
19 leaves foliated 1-19, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti prathamapañcikāyāṃ paṃcamodhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ // saṃvat // samaye āṣāḍhe krṣṇa 15 gurau idaṃ pustakaṃ janārdanena likhitaṃ svārthaṃ parārthaṃ ca // (f. 19v).
Dated 15th of Āṣāḍha (June-July) in the dark half of the month on Guru (Thursday); year left blank (f. 19v).
Scribe is Janārdana (f. 19v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Gaṅgārāma Bhaṭṭa (f. 19v).

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 131 (UP 85).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 85

Contributor:

Janārdana, scribe.
Gaṅgārāma Bhaṭṭa, former owner.

OCLC:

758393762